Having a career isn’t important just because it means having financial stability and a fixed, certain position in society, but also because it helps with our self-esteem, our desire to be useful and do something noteworthy with out lives. However, we are many times stopped in our intentions of finding career opportunities by the fact that we lack comprehensive information about how to increase our chances of success. We’ve all been through the experience – or had a friend go through it – of not getting that job we wanted, all in favor of someone with poorer CV. How can they give the job to someone who doesn’t have your experience, or studies?

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The truth is the CV isn’t enough, and the way you present yourself in an interview is just as important; moreover, getting the job also depends on the type of person the employer needs. In what follows we’re going to provide you with some tips on how to improve your career opportunities and to better yourself, in general. One way of improving your career opportunities is to find a mentor who can guide you in the job you want to excel at, to give you advice and impart some of their knowledge. Not all of us will have access to that though, so it is still important to find someone in the workplace that you admire and respect and on whose opinions you can count on.

An old proverb says that crafts are stolen, not learned, so you need to pay attention to what others do and “borrow” from their experience. However, one way of improving career opportunities is to create your own job. Start a business, make projects, work at home or go to teach in poor countries, it doesn’t matter. What matters is that you do what you like and that you like what you do.

A good piece of advice when looking to improve your career opportunities is to see how you procrastinate. We all have the tendency to postpone certain things we have to do, for fear we might not accomplish them well enough, for fear of failure and so on. You need to find ways to stop you from doing that, such as making lists of goals, or allowing yourself rewards for each accomplishment. Knowing an extra language always brings forth new opportunities of employment, so deal with that as well if you think necessary. These and other advices that can help you with career opportunities are easy to follow if you set your mind to it.